Our Lady of Lourdes is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated in honour of the Marian apparitions that reportedly occurred in 1858 in the vicinity of Lourdes in France.
Today, February 11 is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Lourdes. The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes marks the observance of the World Day of the Sick. This celebration is a reminder to pray for the sick and to recognize for all those who work in health care and serve as caregivers.
11 th of February, Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. On this day, we celebrate and honor the Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Saint Bernadette Soubirous, the first of which took place on 11 February 1858.
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes By sharonswordsoftruth • February 11, 2013 . Each year on February 11 th, we celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. On that day in 1858, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a 14-year-old French peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous.
Our Lady of Lourdes is depicted in white with a blue sash, holding a rosary. Bernadette always felt that Church-sanctioned artistic images of Mary in this apparition were totally wrong, insisting that the lady she saw was a young one, between the ages of twelve and fourteen.
For the feast of the Immaculate Conception, present a rose to our Lady of Lourdes: we will place it in the Grotto for you on the 8th december On Friday 7th and Saturday 8th December 2018, with great solemnity the Sanctuary of Lourdes celebrates the feast of the Immaculate Conception, united to the Family Our Lady of Lourdes and in connection …
He also proclaimed February 11, the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, as World Day of the Sick. Lourdes and St. Bernadette also figure prominently in the life of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. He was born on St. Bernadette’s feast day of April 16 in 1927.
On Feb. 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the liturgical memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, recalling a series of 18 appearances that the Blessed Virgin Mary made to a 14-year-old French peasant …
On February 11, 1858, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous in a grotto in Lourdes, France. By July 16, five months later, Mary had appeared 18 times and had declared herself to be the Immaculate Conception.
This Christmas, peace and love will shine as we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ at National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes! Christmas Day, December 25 Reconciliation, 10:45 a.m. in the Confessional near St. Mary's Chapel